Why California’s palm trees 'explode into a giant torch' each year. ... They advise people to be especially wary of palm trees within 100 feet of any structure or 30 feet of a driveway or roadway.

Los Angeles’s palm trees are dying of fungus and under the threat of invasive insects. The city won’t replace the palms that die, altering their prominence in the city and likely their use as ...

Developers once used palm trees to advertise California's climate to the masses. California has a palm tree problem LA planted thousands of palm trees before hosting the 1932 Olympics.

Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s.

Historic California palm trees come crashing down into ocean amid powerful winter storms . Los Angeles has seen 75% of its annual average rainfall in just the first three weeks of February.

Locals mourn the loss of more palm trees pummeled by a combination of high surf and tides at Doheny State Beach. The palms were planted decades ago and are part of the area’s lore.

California is famously home to the oldest, tallest and largest trees in the world. Three national parks there are named for trees, as well as several cities, including Oakland and Palm Springs.

Saying goodbye to landmark palm and pine trees in Central California 03:23. MADERA — Say goodbye to the palm and the pine, a pair of trees with a storied history considered a treasure to those ...